I started this blog because, after many years doing research in software engineering, I’m redirecting my research to address the challenge of climate change (here’s why). I’m hoping the blog will help me document the journey.

My challenge is to find ways to apply the knowledge and skills I already have (i.e. in software research) to the climate change challenge. And to persuade as many of my colleagues as possible to do the same. I figure that software technology is a crucial part of the picture, from the computational models built by climate scientists to understand climate systems, through to the information and control systems needed to drive a zero-carbon global society. I figure that all this stuff about living a greener life and cutting personal emissions is all very well, but distracts us from the potentially much larger contribution people with specialist knowledge and skills can make.